Conquering Addiction

Since birth Grace has been addicted to the binky. The binky goes with us everywhere. One night, about 2 months ago, we couldn't find any binkies around the house. The 3 of us searched every inch of the house calling bin-ky, bin-ky ... I was not looking forward to bedtime that night and I am sure Grace wasn't either. Finally, we found one lonely binky at the bottom of the toy basket. With Grace's horrible sleep issues we were not ready to try to deal with taking the binky away quite yet. The very next day we went out and bought 4 more binkies.

So Thursday I arrived at daycare to pick Grace up and Lora (our daycare lady) told me that she didn't give Grace her binky that day and she did ok without it. She said she was thinking about Grace's sleep issues and she said she would hate to have us finally get Grace sleeping good and then take the binky away and have her sleep issues start all over. That was a REALLY good point. I hadn't thought about that. When we got home that night Grace ran right to her room and found a binky under her bed. I took it away from her and cut the tip off really quick. I went to Grace and showed her and I told her that the binky is broken. She looked really confused and she took it from me and she stuck her finger thru it and said "ehh?" "ehh?" I said, "I'm sorry baby the binky is broken we are going to have to throw it in the trash." She held my hand and we walked over to the trash can and we threw it away. It took her about 10 seconds and then she started sobbing uncontrollably with big huge tears. It was like someone had died. It was awful. I felt soooo horrible! I started crying myself. It took a good half hour for her to calm down and then she was ok until bedtime. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be though. She cried for about 10 minutes the first night, 2-3 minutes the second night and tonight she didn't cry at all. My baby is getting so big, I am a little sad:(

Special Day

It's been over a month since I started this blog and I haven't written since. Hmmm ... Is anybody suprised? I don't think I even shared that we now have a blog. Oh well.


Since I have a few quiet minutes let me update you on what is going on with us. Life is pretty quiet right now. On March 4 we spent the afternoon with Grace's Birthmom, Sheila. We met her at a mall called Victoria Gardens in Rancho Cucamonga. It was a little uncomfortable at first since we hadn't seen her in over a year but as the afternoon went on it turned out really nice.


Anybody who knows Grace knows that she is a little monkey. She loves to climb and hang and stand on anything she can find. We decided to enroll her in a toddler gymnastics class. We were actually able to find a Saturday morning class which is perfect since we both work full time. She started the class a couple of weeks ago and she loves it. It is a parent participation class and they allow both parents to attend. We have so much fun. Grace's favorite part of the class is hanging on the bars. Two weeks in a row Grace let the teacher use her in demonstrating the skill for the day. I was such a proud momma.

Since the time change and since it has been so warm these last couple of weeks we have been going to the park everyday after I pick Grace up from daycare. She loves to climb up the structure, slide down the twirly slide, climb up, slide down ... endlessly. Once and a while she will stop to run after unsuspecting people out with their dog. If the owner of the dog says that it's not a good idea to pet the dog Grace throws an absolute fit ... Ahhhh ... I think the terrible two's are around the corner :)

I think that's about it for now. I will try to write more oftern. I am not promising though.